Fri 25.05.2018 | 08:30Ploey: You Never Fly Alone (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Arni Asgeirsson
Iceland, Belgium, 2018, 82 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
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The story of a young golden plover having trouble learning to fly and who fails to migrate with his family to warmer climates. With the help of friends, he is able to survive in a world full of natural enemies and is, in the end, celebrated as a hero.
Sat 26.05.2018 | 11:10 Sat 26.05.2018 | 15:20The Girl Down Loch Änzi (2016)
Section: Documentary Film
Directed by: Alice Schmid
Switzerland, 2016, 87 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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Twelve-year-old Laura lives in the Swiss hills on the family farm. She is fascinated by a local legend about a maiden who is supposed to be held captive in the caves close to where she lives. But she won’t dare go check out the story on her own. She whiles away the lonely days bird-watching and helping out on the farm. Then a boy from the city comes to work on the farm. Will he be a new friend and take her to the famous cave where no one else dares to go?
Sat 26.05.2018 | 17:20Your Beauty Is Worth Nothing (2012)
Section: Austrian Trip
Directed by: Hüseyin Tabak
Austria, 2012, 85 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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Half-Kurd half-Turkish Veyse fled from Turkey to Austria with his family and has only been in Vienna for a few months. He’s stressed because his lack of German makes him an outsider and his older brother Mazlum has run away from home. Fortunately, he’s found distraction in Ana, a girl in his class. For a poetry assignment in class he decides to translate his favorite Turkish poem into German, hoping to impress Ana. But when the police show up at the family’s home due to Mazlum, the whole family is in danger of being deported.
Sat 26.05.2018 | 17:30I Kill Giants (2017)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films for Youth
Directed by: Anders Walter
United States of America, United Kingdom, 2017, 106 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
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The story of a teenager who copes with school and family life by escaping into a fantasy world of magic and monsters. Life is not easy for our young heroine, Barbara Thorson. Defiant, precocious, outspoken, and a loner, Barbara relates more to the make-believe world of Dungeons & Dragons. At home, she makes life difficult for her older sister, Karen, who is responsible for taking care of her and her brother. At school, psychologist Mrs. Mollé takes an interest in Barbara's increasingly worrisome behaviour. As she deals with loss and bullying, Barbara's imagined life begins spilling into her real one and she becomes obsessed with what she sees as her quest: killing giants. It's only when she's forced to face the truth and overcome her fears that Barbara is able to confront her demons. Based on the acclaimed graphic novel by Joe Kelly and Ken Niimura.
Sat 26.05.2018 | 19:00Fly Away Home (2016)
Section: Austrian Trip
Directed by: Mirjam Unger
Austria, 2016, 109 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Vienna 1945: The powder keg of war and the Russian occupation as seen through the innocent eyes of nine-year-old Christine. She knows as little about peace as children today know about war. Bombed out and penniless, she and her family are put up in a fancy villa on the outskirts of Vienna. They now have a roof over their heads – nothing more. After the German soldiers capitulate, the Russians take over the house. Everybody is scared of the Russians, who are believed to be a capricious lot. Everybody, except Christine.
Sun 27.05.2018 | 11:10Foxes, Mice and Gallows Hill (1970)
Section: Czechoslovakian Cinema: Films of My Childhood
Directed by: Věra Plívová - Šimková
Czechoslovakia, 1970, 74 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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Sledding, skiing, snow forts, snowballs – winter is a season of fun for the children of the village under Gallows Hill. Their leader had always been Ginger, the son of a local grave digger. Then "Mouse" moved to the village and his father became the chairman of the agricultural co-op, and all the boys joined him – mainly because he lets the boys ride the horses his dad sometimes lends him. Rather than follow Mouse, the proud Ginger abandons the group. The enmity between the two boys provokes a lot of clashes and pranks...
Sun 27.05.2018 | 14:00Ploey: You Never Fly Alone (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Arni Asgeirsson
Iceland, Belgium, 2018, 82 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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The story of a young golden plover having trouble learning to fly and who fails to migrate with his family to warmer climates. With the help of friends, he is able to survive in a world full of natural enemies and is, in the end, celebrated as a hero.
Sun 27.05.2018 | 16:30I Kill Giants (2017)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films for Youth
Directed by: Anders Walter
United States of America, United Kingdom, 2017, 106 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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The story of a teenager who copes with school and family life by escaping into a fantasy world of magic and monsters. Life is not easy for our young heroine, Barbara Thorson. Defiant, precocious, outspoken, and a loner, Barbara relates more to the make-believe world of Dungeons & Dragons. At home, she makes life difficult for her older sister, Karen, who is responsible for taking care of her and her brother. At school, psychologist Mrs. Mollé takes an interest in Barbara's increasingly worrisome behaviour. As she deals with loss and bullying, Barbara's imagined life begins spilling into her real one and she becomes obsessed with what she sees as her quest: killing giants. It's only when she's forced to face the truth and overcome her fears that Barbara is able to confront her demons. Based on the acclaimed graphic novel by Joe Kelly and Ken Niimura.
Sun 27.05.2018 | 17:10Dreams By the Sea (2017)
Section: International Competition of European First Films
Directed by: Sakaris Stórá
Faroe Islands, Denmark, 2017, 78 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 2
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Ester (16) lives a safe but mundane life, in a small town on an island together with her religious and conservative parents. One day, when she’s in Sunday school, she meets Ragna, a girl who has just moved to the same small town with her alcoholic mother, and her 8-year-old brother. In Ragna, Ester sees what she has been looking for her whole life. Unaware that Ragna see’s the exact same thing in Ester, and especially Ester’s father. The attraction of opposites makes them best friends. Together they dream about getting away from their boring life on the island, but soon they realize that it’s only their own selves that they want to escape from.
Sun 27.05.2018 | 17:20 Sun 27.05.2018 | 17:30Cross My Heart (2017)
Section: International Competition of Feature Films for Youth
Directed by: Luc Picard
Canada, 2017, 102 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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Montreal, 1970. The radical left-wing nationalist group ‘Front de libération du Québec’ has forced the province into a state of emergency, and meanwhile twelve-year-old Manon looks on helplessly as her family falls apart. Her father is ill and because her mother is unable to cope, she is forced to give up her children to separate foster families. However, Manon has sworn to her younger brother Mimi that she will never leave him alone, so she hatches a daring plan. She forms a revolutionary group with her cousins and kidnaps an unsuspecting grandma. They demand home-made cakes, bedtime stories and, above all, that they are allowed to live the way they want to. In a remote cabin, they spend their days enjoying their new-found freedom – far from the ignorance of the grown-up world.
Mon 28.05.2018 | 10:30Together (2017)
Section: Documentary Film
Directed by: Daniel Fahre
Norway, 2017, 86 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 1
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Two twin brothers are willing to sacrifice everything for each other and their music. This is a portrait of the pop-duo Marcus and Martinus and their rise to fame.
Mon 28.05.2018 | 17:20Pin Cushion (2017)
Section: International Competition of European First Films
Directed by: Deborah Haywood
United Kingdom, 2017, 89 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 3
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A super close mother and daughter (Lyn and Iona) are excited for their new life in a new town. Determined to make a success of things after a tricky start, Iona becomes ‘best friends’ with Keely, Stacey and Chelsea. Used to being Iona’s bestie herself, Lyn feels left out. So Lyn makes friends with Belinda, her neighbour. As much as Lyn and Iona pretend to each other that things are going great, things aren’t going great for either of them. Iona struggles with the girls, who act more like frenemies than friends, and Belinda won’t give Lyn her stepladders back. Both mother and daughter retreat into fantasy and lies.
Mon 28.05.2018 | 19:00And Then I Go (2017)
Section: American Teen
Directed by: Vincent Grashaw
United States of America, 2017, 99 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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In the cruel world of junior high, Edwin suffers in a state of anxiety and alienation alongside his only friend, Flake. Misunderstood by their families and demoralized at school daily, their fury simmers quietly until an idea for vengeance offers them a terrifying release. Based on the acclaimed novel “Project X” by Jim Shepard, this unflinching look at adolescence explores how the powerful bonds of childhood friendship and search for belonging can become a matter of life or death.
Tue 29.05.2018 | 11:00Hobbyhorse Revolution (2017)
Section: Documentary Film
Directed by: Selma Vilhunen
Finland, 2017, 90 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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Mariam AKA "Aisku" is a prize winning athlete. She sacrifices a lot for her sport, where she performs at a championship level, and she takes the risk of being laughed at. She specialises in hobbyhorsing. Aisku also works as a coach. One of her charges, Elsa, reveals quite openly how this unusual hobby helps her cope with difficult times. Many other young women and girls like her demonstrate in this film that hobbyhorsing is not a children’s game, but a means to recharge one’s batteries, gain recognition, and experience the feeling of belonging. “Respect to the hobbyhorses!”
Tue 29.05.2018 | 17:30Team Hurricane (2017)
Section: International Competition of European First Films
Directed by: Annika Berg
Denmark, 2017, 96 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 4
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Meet Ida, Sara, Eja, Maja, Zara, Mathilde and Ira: a teen girl squad who grows tighter than ever when local politicians plan to close down the youth community center. The youth club is their hideout from the outside world where they can draw, dance, chill, talk or just hang out and not talk at all. A safe zone away from the others. Together. Radical girls in an ordinary world.
Tue 29.05.2018 | 19:00Seventeen (2017)
Section: Austrian Trip
Directed by: Monja Art
Austria, 2017, 105 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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As school is drawing to a close and the summer holidays approach, boarding school pupil Paula is secretly in love with her friend Charlotte. But Charlotte’s going out with Michael. Lovelorn, Paula decides to try and take her mind of things by getting involved with schoolmate Tim, whose feelings for her are at least genuine. Paula has no idea how often Charlotte thinks of her. And then there’s Lilli, who is just dying for someone to fancy her and tries to play the wild seductress. Paula must decide if she wants to follow her own feelings or yield to other people’s.
Tue 29.05.2018 | 21:30We (2018)
Section: International Competition of European First Films
Directed by: Rene Eller
Netherlands, Belgium, 2018, 100 min
Projection place: Golden Apple Cinema 6
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During a scorching summer in a Belgian-Dutch border village, eight teenagers play games of discovery to break the listless monotony. They challenge each other and themselves and pretty soon, their sexual curiosity starts to blur the lines between right and wrong. As innocence is crushed in depraved games and sexual exploitation, the teenagers soon turn into ruthless predators.
Wed 30.05.2018 | 08:20Ploey: You Never Fly Alone (2018)
Section: Panorama
Directed by: Arni Asgeirsson
Iceland, Belgium, 2018, 82 min
Projection place: Aula
Score:
The story of a young golden plover having trouble learning to fly and who fails to migrate with his family to warmer climates. With the help of friends, he is able to survive in a world full of natural enemies and is, in the end, celebrated as a hero.